Police finalise fresh probe against former SAD minister in drugs case

Chandigarh, December 20

The Punjab Police are learnt to have finalised a fresh investigation against an Akali ex-minister earlier acquitted of drug smuggling charges. Police officials were incommunicado. However, sources said the Bureau of Investigation had finalised the probe and recommended that a criminal case be filed after it conducted an investigation into an old Banur drug smuggling case.

This comes on a day when the police filed a case against unknown persons for leaking a letter by Bureau of Investigation chief SK Asthana, in which he cited legal hurdles in holding a fresh probe against the Akali leader.

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There were reports that an FIR had been lodged with the state crime police station, but a copy of the same was not available with The Tribune till the filing of the report. — TNS